blueberry lemon cream scones
These scones are buttery, flakey, lemony, blueberry melt in your mouth good. Excellent with a cup of tea. I had the absolute pleasure of having lunch at a Tea Room with my daughter & my 3 year granddaughter (Lilly) a few weeks ago. We (including Lilly) were allowed to pick out our china tea cup and saucer. We were each served our own China Pots of tea. Of course Lilly's was a smaller pot, just her size. It was so much fun watching her try to be grown up as she put cubes of sugar in her tea and enjoyed scones. These scones brought back sweet memories of Lilly's first real tea party.
prep time
25 Min
cook time
20 Min
method
Bake
yield
8 serving(s)
Ingredients
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- - zest of small lemon
- 1/2 cup butter, frozen (i put a stick of butter in freezer overnight)
- 6 ounces blueberries, frozen
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- - additional cream for brushing tops of scones
- GLAZE
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- - juice from 1/2 of small lemon
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon zest, grated
- - heavy cream
How To Make blueberry lemon cream scones
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Step 1Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line baking pan with parchment paper. Don't use a flat cookie sheet, as butter may run off into oven.
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Step 2In a large bowl; whisk together flour, baking powder, sugar, salt and lemon zest. Grate butter and toss in flour until dough resembles coarse crumbs. NOTE: work fast with the butter as it will begin to soften with the warmth of your hands. As it get harder to handle the butter, just cut last bit of butter in to pea size pieces.
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Step 3Add the frozen blueberries and toss in flour/butter mixture until well coated.
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Step 4In a small mixing bowl; whisk together the egg, cream and lemon extract. Add to dry ingredient and stir just until combined.
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Step 5Turn dough onto a floured surface and pat out into a 1 inch thick circle. Cut in half and then into quarters. Cut each quarter in half. There will be 8 scones. Transfer scones to parchment lined baking pan.
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Step 6Brush scones with cream. Sprinkle with coarse sugar if desired. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes or until scones are golden brown.
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Step 7Remove from oven and let scones begin to cool while preparing glaze. NOTE: I like mine a little warm.
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Step 8Mix together the powdered sugar, melted butter, lemon juice and zest together. Add just enough cream to either drizzle or spread over scone. If too thick, add a little more cream, if too thin, add a little more powdered sugar. Hard to mess the glaze up. Spread or drizzle glaze over scones and enjoy!
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